‘A Great Day In Harlem’

NPR posted this great photo along with the history behind it.: On an August morning in 1958, 57 jazz musicians gathered on a Harlem stoop to pose for a group portrait taken by jazz enthusiast Art Kane (who went on to become a famed fashion and rock ‘n’ roll photographer). The famous photo, shot on the front steps and sidewalk outside a brownstone on 126th Street, became the centerfold in Esquire’s January 1959 issue, The Golden Age of Jazz. You can read the full story here.